Since this interview, i have become enamored of www.google.com for my
first search in any quest. it prioritizes pages which lots of other pages
link to... which weights things in a usually useful way... and it has a
cache of the page as it appeared at indexing as well as the link to that URL
now, so that if you are looking for "flower arrange thistle" and you find
a craft-of-the-day-page but it now features model painting, you can see the
thistle page from another day which the search spider found, still in
that cache link. I have heard of sites which restoed accidentally deleted
pages from that cache feature on google! So Reva, how do you rate it?

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Reva Basch, Goddess of Cyberspacepermalink #159
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this bag is not a toy(vard)Tue 31 Aug 99 14:54

I started using google after the review of it on Salon by <scottros>. I
was particularly attracted by his description of its peer-review-type
ranking algorithm. Then just for a lark I went to google and typed in
"chocolate chip cookies" and MY OWN PAGE came up first!! I was so excited!

Taking your recommendation, I just went to google after a frustrating
and fruitless search on Alta Vista, usually my search engine of choice.
What I liked was that, in addition to the highlighted link, google
also displayed the text I was looking for highlighted and in context so
I could actually find it when I went to the link.
I may have a new favorite, now that Alta Vista seems to be more
interested in being a portal than in being a useful search engine.

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